Brandon Sun By: Colin Slark Save to Read Later
A section of land, with two separate but connected histories, lies along the Assiniboine River west of 18th Street in Brandon.
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A section of land, with two separate but connected histories, lies along the Assiniboine River west of 18th Street in Brandon.
The first is not a happy history. From 1895 to 1971, those that ran the Brandon Residential School took Indigenous children from their home communities in an attempt to assimilate them into colonial society established by European settlers.
A pair of students show off their what they picked from the field at the school farm in this photo from sometime between 1913 and 1915. (SJ McKee Archives, Brandon University)
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Prohibition was repealed in B.C. in 1921. But booze remained illegal in the U.S. until 1933, which made it a very lucrative export business for enterprising Canadians.
Hence you had a story on an “international convention of bootleggers” in Winnipeg that ran in the May 15, 1922, Vancouver Sun. The “three-day session” attracted “more than 30 members of the ‘profession’ from the principal cities of Canada and the United States.”
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Details were scant the meeting was at an unnamed hotel, by unnamed bootleggers. But an “informant” spilled the beans.
Glass treasures from Winnipeg s brewing past exposed by historically low river level
Historically low river levels in Winnipeg exposed a sunken cache from the city s past at the end of Mulvey Avenue relics from an era when breweries and bottling plants dotted the banks of the Red and Assiniboine rivers.
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Winnipeg Free Press By: Joyanne Pursaga | Posted: 7:00 PM CDT Monday, May. 10, 2021 Save to Read Later
Winnipeg is being lobbied to add strict new limits to its responsible pet ownership bylaw to reduce what some deem a pet “overpopulation.”
Winnipeg is being lobbied to add strict new limits to its responsible pet ownership bylaw to reduce what some deem a pet overpopulation.
A city committee took a step toward studying some of those ideas on Monday.
Jonas Watson, chairman of the Winnipeg Humane Society, told council’s protection and community services committee that too many unwanted or improperly cared-for pets place a never-ending strain on animal shelters and rescue organizations.
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She stood in the doorway, frowning, with a black cat tucked over her arm and five others flopped down beneath the shade of a tree in the front yard of her house on Queen Street in St. James. In the backyard, a few kittens mewed as they lay in the sun. Inside, 15 sets of paws awaited their guardian’s return.
A sign on the front door asked in capital letters that agents and pedlars skip over the house, and a large board propped against the tree, just past a picket fence spanned by chicken wire, reiterated the message.